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Shortly after Jan. 1 of this year, the Stephen Daye Press staff was gathered in conference to think of a good name for a series of ski cartoons which had been drawn by Max Barsis, author of one of our books, Bottoms Up: An Unreliable Handbook for Skiers. . . . Dubious suggestions from each one of us (witness skitoes, skiskits, skiddings, shinnies) were mentioned and howled down, when one of us suggested skidaddles, and another of us bridged the gap to skidoodles...
Last month the BBC Handbook for 1940 reached the U. S. Some statistics on British listening...
Those appointed are Robert G. Axtell '43, Freshman Committee; Thomas P. Barnefield '42, Information Committee; Lincoln Bloomfield '41, Undergraduate Faculty Committee; Joseph A. Hartman '41. Library Committee; John C. Lacy '42, Speakers Committee; Harry Newman '42, Social Service Committee; Robert H. Orchard '42, Handbook Committee; and Roger S. Schafer '41, Foreign Students Committee...
...years ago (according to a story Frank Just told Federal investigators) a lawyer with a little mustache called at the News-Sun office and introduced him self as William Goldstein. Everybody in Chicago knows that Lawyer Goldstein frequently appears as legal counsel for alleged handbook operators in their brief and painless brushes with the law. He is also an attorney for Billy Skidmore, Chicago's gambling overlord...
...fights, raids, enlightened opinions and funny stories between two covers. The book also outlines just what can, to date, be legally got away with; and gives in full the anthropologically fascinating, immortally funny Production Code for the movies. The volume may be useful as a sort of Scouts' Handbook for liberals...